From: Reuben Thomas via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 8492@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:25:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdogmNUOfA6yFpuv8YkLkuQF+kE1p56CWuKExW4Z7_BvobQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 13:38, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Anyway, I agree that `M-TAB' is a bad choice for a key binding this
> days, since many of the window systems out there steal the key, and
> therefore an important thing like completion doesn't work logically out
> of the box for many people.
>
Indeed, it won't work for most potential new users.
> `C-TAB' is free, of course, but doesn't work on terminals, and I guess
> the same is the case with all other modifier+TAB combinations. So I
> don't know what we could do -- we could bind `C-TAB' for the GUI people,
> for instance?
>
C-TAB is a good choice for a binding that won't conflict with the
environment, as it's widely used by other programs for "switch tab", so
it's unlikely that any window manager would steal it by default.
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-13 17:26 bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion? Reuben Thomas
2011-04-15 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-15 22:53 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-15 23:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-19 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-19 13:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-19 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-19 18:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-24 18:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-24 19:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-24 19:55 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-19 10:52 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2011-04-19 12:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 11:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 13:22 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 14:49 ` Sven Joachim
2011-04-20 16:41 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-20 17:11 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 18:28 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-20 22:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 0:13 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-21 6:02 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 22:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 14:07 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 15:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-20 18:28 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 22:49 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 21:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-20 22:51 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 12:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-21 18:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 19:34 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 19:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 20:14 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 20:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 21:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-22 13:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 17:33 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-22 18:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 21:01 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-22 21:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 20:44 ` Sean Sieger
2021-10-21 19:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 19:45 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-21 20:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 6:30 ` Phil Sainty
2021-10-22 8:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-04-29 12:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 13:22 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-29 13:25 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-04-29 13:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 15:14 ` Drew Adams
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